About half of my trips are tiring, heart-racing slogs into the wind and/or uphill. But the other half – gliding down an incline, exercising only my brake pads; sailing along the street with a forceful wind-assist; delighting in a combination of both after a long, tiring workday – those trips make the other half absolutely, positively worthwhile!

The bicycle is an incredibly supple and finely-grained way of using urban space. To be kind of wonky about it I don’t think that there is any finer tool in the psychogeographer’s toolkit than the bicycle. It allows you to traverse comparatively large stretches of ground in short order, and yet you still have something of the pedestrian’s ability to make instantaneous decisions about: I’m going to stop here, I’m going to turn down this corner. And yet as opposed to walking it lowers the opportunity cost of having made a bad decision.

The bicycle is just… It is hard for me to imagine a technology that has less downside and more upsides than the bicycle. It’s just an incredible thing…

Epigenetic research has found evidence that your diet, stress levels, environmental stimuli and exercise levels (especially at a youngish age) have a fairly strong influence on the DNA of your kids, and your grandkids.

It has been demonstrated in fruit flies, bees, mice, citizens of rural Sweden, women who were pregnant during 9/11…

-On 4th January, Seoul had its heaviest snowfall in at least 70 years. (How to make a city very pretty, very fast.) The city government did its utmost to clear the carpaths [roads]. However, footpaths and bikepaths remained treacherous for more than a fortnight. Not many bikes about round here, including underground-bound me.

5th January - Seoul

-More pertinantly, I threw a few numbers into a calculator. It’s so cool how much time and money I save by only irregularly using public transport. (Not to mention not wasting time and money on a gym.) Let’s just say these went a long way towards the 1-year distance learning course I’m now busy studying via the London School of Economics.